Prior to Signifyd, I worked remotely at NASA Ames Research Center for five years.  That job was wonderful and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. It was also a typical remote experience — I was the one remote person on the team. My managers had to go out of their way to include me in…

Signifyd started with a monolith — most tech startups do. Our monolith served us well until the cracks started to show — again a very common experience. In our case the most worrisome crack started because of our machine learning models. The problem wasn’t specifically with our models, per se, but rather their memory footprint.…

About four months into my time at Signifyd, one of my old coworkers ended up between jobs. He was one of the steadiest, most conscientious people I’d ever worked with, and I thought he and Signifyd would be great for each other. So I decided to pitch the company to him and I led with…

After fighting with an upgrade from Webpack 1.x to 3.x (for longer than I’d like to admit) it all suddenly clicked. Behold the mystery revealed: Demo of a simple app with multiple routes dynamically loading. Note the 200 response after “Page Two” is edited but a 304 for the unchanged files.  TL:DR sample app repo Let’s…

Ant Design has an amazing set of react components. If you are reading this then I don’t need to explain why or how to use them but how to customize them. The official docs only gives you some clues into customization but not a full how-to guide. The intent of this write-up is to guide you…